How do i right click compress to name of file

Hi, i used to be able to do this on the universities computer who had power archiver installed but not on my own computer at home and that is when ever i right click on a file i wish to compress at university it says compress to “Filename”.zip (this is what i want to do) at home when i right click it says compress to “Folder the file is in”.zip This is annoying as why would i want to call my new zip file the folder it is in. So how can i set it so when i right click it will compress to the nane of the file.

Also could i ask if you could make this a default setting on newer versions.

However, right-clicking on a single file (e.g. foobar.txt) in Windows Explorer does offer “Compress to foobar.zip” as default

If you right-click on a folder, that is when it offers “Foldername.zip”

I therefore assume you are right clicking after selecting multiple files and want to compress each one individually - if so, this is not possible (at least, not yet - it is probably one of the oldest things on the wishlist).

To compress multiple files individually, you should launch the “Tools/Batch Zip” utility from within PowerArchiver.

Yes you are right but what i am actually wanting to do is choose a bunch of files and put them in the one archive with the name of the file i have right clicked on.

So if i have three files (say two txt files and an exe file) i select them all but then on the last one (eg. the exe file) that i want the zip file to be called i right click on that last one and instead of giving me the name of that file to zip up with it usually says either Desktop.zip or New Folder.zip depending where those three files were located. I do not want this. So is it possible to change to this.

Thanks for all your help on this but i will show you what i am meaning i have uploaded a screen capture of my computer desktop as an AVI format, I have uploaded it to a you sendit file here to show you what happens when i try to right click zip something

What i want to do is select a bunch of files, right click and have the zip archive to be the name of the file i right clicked on like i say it definitely used to work at university. It may have been a different zip program i was using at uni but i am sure it was power archiver, and if you say it works then i am assuming its just my computer acting up as if you say its possible but it does not seem to work for me.

Ahh, you are not using Windows Explorer ! You have files on the desktop and are “lassooing” them (Click and drag).

Just tried this, it seems that if you lasso shortcuts, then right click on one of them - only the target of one you rightclick on is compressed (so individual filename.zip is offered), but if you lasso actual files then all are compressed and it works the same way as I described in Windows Explorer (with the foldername being DeskTop.zip).

Thanks but is there anyway that i could set it now or you could set in future releases that if i choose three objects and right click on one them the archive will be named what i right clicked on.

You could create a Folder on the desktop “This Is My Program”, move your files into it and then Zip that Folder

You could always make a request in the Forum Wishlist - however, I’m not sure how you think PowerArchiver would pick which of the filenames to use from the list provided by Windows Explorer or how users would be able to control it.
Choosing (and/or lassoing) and then right-clicking depends on Windows Explorer and not PowerArchiver. The filenames are then passed as a list to PowerArchiver via the context menu.

Usually, the order of files in the list is not important.
Maybe when CTRL-clicking explorer provides the list of files in “selection” order (last clicked is last in list)?
Don’t know what the order would be when “lassoing” though (alphabetical?).

@spwolf:
we will check it out for 9.6 and see whats up.
With 9.6 beta, I wasnt able to reproduce it, although nothing was done in that area. I did have to reboot due to changes or it wouldnt work.
9.6 final will be out next week so you wont wait for too long.
Thank you for support. You can take it all the time; I will wait for 9.6 next week.
Bye

The issue in this thread is actually my issue and I’d love to bounce some more ideas off of you guys to see if I can resolve my problem.
I’m on Windows 7 and PowerArchiver 2010. The archive was also created with PA2010.
I have 6GBs of RAM and I am only trying to move a few files from the archive, so I know I have enough space for that. Unless someone can confirm that I need to have space for all the files on the archive before I can move even one file?
I am able to load the main zip file and see the folders and files within that archive. I can even drag just one file from the archive into a new folder on my hard drive. I can preview all the files in the archive.
However, if I try to move say, 5 files, I end up with the same issue described above – 0% progress and Not Responding. Each time I try to restart the process, it takes 15-20 minutes to get the archive open and I try again with the same result.

@TBGBe:
This is all using windows explorer - so it does use the shell extension.
Or do you mean you want a seperate “context menu” option such as
“extract to …\filename” ?
Hmm, “other utilities” don’t have it, so maybe it would be another advantage to using PA.
Sorry - what I meant to say is that it is available under the RMB, like “Extract to”.
It would then have to be named like “Extract to \multiple filenames” (or something
similar)
Thank you.
brgds
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@BirgemBorg:
Hi, how can I make batch file in order to unzip file to desirable destination?
For batch file commands, you should use PACL (PowerArchiver Command Line).
See download page ::
Current version is 4.01 - but there is a 5.0 beta available.

Yes, I guess so. I have edited my post, it should read … source file… (not source folder which was in my initial post) and added 1 pw for all files.
Let’s say it is a bit like when I am searching for all *.txt files in all subfolders, it will find various files in various folders.
Now select the files and rightclick compress to individual, pw-protected .exe files.
(I seldomly use the GUI, only use context menu, is much faster)
Did not check if any other archiver/zipper can do this though.
Later
1. Add examples of batch zip
======[1]=====Adding multiple files to be zipped - note new pw thing==
======[2]=====before and after===
Maybe it could be considered to add a batch zip to exe profile?
(Options->Compression Profiles) and have that added to context menu?
Just a suggestion …
later: maybe this one should be moved to the wishlist part…
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